What You Need To Know About Unite The Right Rally

Ahead of the Unite the Right rally, scheduled to take place Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, brawls erupted at the University of Virginia campus on Friday night as white nationalists marched through the campus chanting slogans like, “You will not replace us,” reports said.

“#Charlottesville” soon emerged as one of the top trends on Twitter as social media users shared pictures of the protesters at the campus. Some Twitter users were reminded of Germany under the Nazis.

A Twitter user also shared a picture of the varsity students protesting against the white nationalists.

The Unite the Right rally, set to take place in the Emancipation Park and McIntire Park, will see the participation of Neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and alt-right activists. The rally has been organized against the city’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the Emancipation Park. The crowd of the protesters and counter protesters was expected to swell up to 6,000 according to CNN.

“Unite the Right was expected to draw a broad spectrum of far-right extremist groups – from immigration foes to anti-Semitic bigots, neo-Confederates, Proud Boys, Patriot and militia types, outlaw bikers, swastika-wearing neo-Nazis, white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members – all of whom seem emboldened by the Trump presidency,” according to the U.S. nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The Saturday rally could become “the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States,” the rights group said.

The City Of Charlottesville earlier approved a permit for the rally at McIntire Park, but there is a possibility that a large crowd of people could gather in the downtown, according to a local news website.